Vol. 9 // Lent - Easter - Pentecost

Gentle Shepherd, when we wandered

You searched until you found us

Gentle Shepherd, everywhere we are

Your love is all around us

Lyrics: Seth Thomas Crissman and Greg Yoder, 2018

Music: Seth Thomas Crissman and Greg Yoder, 2018

Vocals: Lindsey FitzGerald Stine and Rachel FitzGerald

God, we have sinned, we have gone astray

We have turned away and fallen

God, we have sinned, we have put our faith

In our own strength and fallen

When we fall short, when we fall down

You stay right here, You stick around

When we call out, call Your name

Your love is near and You give us grace

When we are lost, You seek and find

When we confess, Your heart is kind

You call our name, call us Your own

And You always forgive

God, we have sinned, we have gone astray

We have turned away and fallen

God, we have sinned, we have put our faith

In our own strength and fallen

When we fall short, when we fall down

You're always here, You're all around and

When we call out, call Your name

Your love is near and You give us grace

When we are lost, You seek and find

When we confess, Your heart is kind

You call our name, call us Your own

And You always forgive

Lyrics: Seth Thomas Crissman, 2023

Music: Seth Thomas Crissman and Lauren Yoder, 2023

Vocals: Lauren Yoder, Rachel Mast, Kristina Yoder

When we are afraid and have nowhere to turn

God, our help in trouble

When waters rise and forests burn

God, our help in trouble

When our last hope has been claimed

By the floods or by flame

Give us voice to call out your name

God, our help in trouble

When we are afraid and have nowhere to hide

God, our help in trouble

Mountains too high and rivers too wide

God, our help in trouble

When we don’t know what to do

And there’s no way through

Give us strength to call out to you

God, our help in trouble

When we are afraid and have nowhere to go

God, our help in trouble

When we find ourselves in a place we don’t know

God, our help in trouble

When we’re not sure who to trust

And our walls turn to dust

You are the one who will never leave us

God, our help in trouble

Lyrics: Seth Thomas Crissman and Greg Yoder, 2023

Music: Seth Thomas Crissman and Greg Yoder, 2023

Vocals: Chass Kreider, Mitchell Yoder, Kristina Yoder

Very truly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls

Very truly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls

Into the earth and dies

It remains just a single grain

But if it dies, it bears much fruit

No need, no need to fear decay

Our inner nature being renewed day by day

Every tear gon’ be wiped away

Resurrection in Jesus’ name

Resurrection in Jesus’ name

Resurrection in Jesus’ name

Lyrics: Direct quotation of John 12:24 (NRSV), with additional verse by Nicolas Melas, 2023

Music: Nicolas Melas, 2023

Vocals: Nicolas Melas, Nichole Barrows, Ebony Nicole

Early on the first day of the week

I slip into the darkness, while the garden lays sleeping

Feel the dew upon my hand, cool from the weeping of the stone

Night still clings heavy like a shroud

I whisper to the emptiness, and the echo is as loud

As thunder, it’s a wonder that the dead still slumber and leave us here alone

They have taken him, and I do not know where he’s gone

Then all the world is in motion

Running, like waves, trying to outrun the ocean

They overtake each other, brother tumbling over brother,

To the threshold, but daring not go in

Standing in the flowers, unbelieving

Hearing voices in the garden, “Woman, why are you grieving?”

They have taken him away,

And I do not know where they have taken him

They have taken him, and I do not know where he’s gone

Someone has taken him, and I do not know where he’s gone

Now I have seen the lilies of the field

And I have seen the sparrows winging o’er

But if this is how you show your love

I’m not sure I can take much more

Early on the first day of the week

I slip into the darkness, where the gardener is keeping

watch over the mourning ones,

He’ll watch until the morning comes aflame

“Sir, if you have carried him away,

Tell me where you laid him so I may go to him today”

His silence breaks my spirit, then so soft I barely hear it

He remakes me with the whisper of my name

I know they have not taken him

For I have seen the coming dawn

Lyrics: Greg Yoder, 2023

Music: Greg Yoder, Valerie Bess, and Taylor Bess, 2023

Vocals: Valerie Bess, Taylor Bess

Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress;

my eye wastes away from grief, O LORD, my soul and body also,

For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing;

my strength fails because of my misery, and my bones waste away.

I have passed out of mind like one who is dead

I have become like a broken vessel.

But I trust in you, O LORD; I trust in you, O LORD;

But I trust in you, O LORD; I say, "You are my God." "You are my God."

Let your face shine upon your servant; save me in your steadfast love.

Let your face shine upon your servant; save me

Lyrics: Direct quotation of Psalm 31:9-10, 12, 14, 16 (NRSV)

Music: Greg Yoder, 2023

Vocals: Ebony Nicole, Nichole Barrows, Kristina Yoder

THERE IS NO FEAR IN LOVE

Ten years old, lying in bed, round and round they go, thoughts race through my head

Grand Prix, green, yellow, and red, checkered flags ain’t slowing or quelling my dread

Peeling out at the boom of the starting gun.

Was that a boom in my room? Ok, now the party’s done

But the race is on, covers over my head until the dawn

‘Cuz I can’t turn it off in the night, no, can’t turn it off in the night, no sleeping

Can’t stop my thoughts in the night, so

The lanes of my brain are filled with the beeping

Of a hundred thousand thoughts in a traffic jam

Hear sirens whine, now I’m imagining

Police chase, fire, or an ambulance

Getting back to sleep, man, I don’t stand a chance

Heart pounding, feel it in my ears

Cry out, “momma, please!” and she always hears and

Draws me near, whispers, “my child, there’s nothing to fear”

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear

Perfect love casts out fear

Simon Peter was an apostle

Peter was a leader, read about him in the Gospels

Started out as a fisherman,

Jesus called him out, be a fisher of men

Jesus called him out on the water, Peter want to follow

Then he got afraid, faith smaller, he start to falter, sea start to swallow,

Even though Jesus like the Rock of Gibraltar

Steady, sturdy, never-changing love

Peter knew Jesus like a hand knows a glove

But even though it fit, Peter couldn’t quit fear

Remember in the garden, that bit with the ear?

Lashed out, then afraid for his life

He denied Christ, not one, not twice,

But three times, before the rooster crowed

Then he wept bitterly, because he said he didn’t know Jesus,

Still God’s perfect love is strong enough

To take Simon Peter from the waterfront

And—even with his flaws and all—

make him a rock

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear

Perfect love casts out fear

“4:12 No one has ever seen God;

if we love one another, God lives in us,

and his love is perfected in us.

4:13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us,

because he has given us of his Spirit.”

“4:19 We love because he first loved us.”

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear

Perfect love casts out fear

Lyrics: Greg Yoder, 2023, with direct quotation of 1 John 4:12-13, 18a, 19 (NRSV)

Music: Greg Yoder, 2023

Vocals: Greg Yoder, Nicolas Melas, Ebony Nicole, Nichole Barrows, Jackson Maust, Kristina Yoder, Mitchell Yoder

If we confess our sins,

he is faithful and just

And will forgive us our sins and purify us

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just

And will forgive us our sins and purify us

Faithful, faithful and just

Faithful and just and will forgive us

Purify us from all unrighteousness

Purify us from all unrighteousness

Lyrics: Direct quotation of 1 John 1:9 (NIV)

Music: Nichole Barrows, Ebony Nicole, Seth Crissman, and Greg Yoder, 2023

Vocals: Mitchell Yoder, Rachel Mast, students of Redeemer Classical School

I will sing

I will sing

I will sing to the LORD all my life

I will sing praise to my God

As long as I live

Lyrics: direct quotation of Psalm 104:33 (NIV)

Music: Nichole Barrows and Nicolas Melas, 2024

Vocals: Nichole Barrows, Ebony Nicole, Nicolas Melas

Surely goodness and mercy

Surely goodness and mercy

Surely goodness and mercy

Shall follow me all the days of my life

And I will dwell in the house of the LORD

And I will dwell in the house of the LORD

And I will dwell in the house of the LORD

For ever

Lyrics: Direct quotation of Psalm 23:6 (KJV)

Music: Seth Thomas Crissman, Jackson Todd Maust, Mitchell Reid Yoder, 2023

Vocals: Jackson Maust, Eastern Mennonite High School Chamber Choir

Hosanna, loud hosanna the little children sang;

through pillared court and temple the lovely anthem rang.

To Jesus, who had blessed them, close folded to his breast,

the children sang their praises, the simplest and the best

"Hosanna in the highest!" That ancient song we sing,

for Christ is our Redeemer, let our loud hosannas ring.

From Olivet they followed amid an exultant crowd,

the victory palm branch waving, and chanting clear and loud.

"Hosanna in the highest!" That ancient song we sing,

for Christ is our Redeemer, let our loud hosannas ring.

"Hosanna in the highest!" That ancient song we sing,

for Christ is our Redeemer, let our loud hosannas ring.

Lyrics: Jennette Threlfall, 1873, alt.

Music: Seth Thomas Crissman and Greg Yoder, 2023

Vocals: Bethany and Micah Spicher Schonberg

For the bread, for the bread

Which you have broken

For the wine, for the wine

Which you have poured

For your word, for your word

Which you have spoken

Now we give you thanks, O Lord

Now we give you thanks, O Lord

Lyrics: Lewis F Benson, 1924 (alt)

Music: Seth Thomas Crissman; arr. Mitchell Yoder, Kristina Yoder, Greg Yoder, and Jackson Maust, 2023

Vocals: Jackson Maust, Kristina Yoder, Mitchell Yoder, Greg Yoder